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More Blogging on Automated Essay Grading

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on September 15, 2013

Sometime guest blogger and friend of e-Literate Elijah Mayfield has another great post up on using machine learning tools in the service of improving student writing over at his company blog. However you may feel about the technology, the exploration that he’s doing raises some important question about what good feedback on writing is. This aspect of […]

Great Post on Machine Learning and Essay Grading

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on August 1, 2013

Vik Paruchuri, the author of the edX automated essay grading component, has a great (and lengthy) post up that, in part, responds to Elijah Mayfield’s post on the edX announcement. There’s a good discussion going on in comments, too. We need more posts like this one. I’m happy to see the experts in this field […]

Please Welcome Featured Blogger Elijah Mayfield

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on April 8, 2013

When the story first broke a while back about the Kaggle contest for robo-grading essays that could be “similar to” human graders, I got interested. So after doing a little reading, I ended up contacting a guy by the name of Elijah Mayfield, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the winners […]

What Is Machine Learning Good For?

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on May 6, 2012

A few weeks ago, Audrey Watters wrote a great piece on her concerns about robo-grading of essays. (I tend to take a lot of inspiration from the things that annoy Audrey, in part because they usually annoy me too.) Here’s the crux of her argument: According to Steve Kolowich’s Inside Higher Ed story, [educational researcher Mark] Shermis […]

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